Kate Ritchie expecting first child?

Kate Ritchie is rumoured to be pregnant with her first child.

The 32-year-old Australian actress, who quit her role as Sally Fletcher in Home and Away in 2007, has been photographed wearing loose clothes and hiding her stomach with bags on various occasions recently.

One onlooker at the Ski Activ Digestion yogurt event that Ritchie attended last week told Woman's Day magazine: "She's obviously in a very happy place in her life right now. She was literally glowing."

Ritchie was spotted buying baby clothes but her manager insisted that they were for a "friend". She has also reportedly cut back on exercise and stopped drinking.

A source added: "Kate usually wears either tighter-fitting dresses or jeans. She has a good body, but she's changed her wardrobe almost completely lately, which makes you wonder what she's hiding."

Ritchie married rugby league star Stuart Webb in a private ceremony in Tasmania last year.